Reader Question
The most difficult (and possibly inappropriate) question asked on book tour thus far
If you’ve ever attended one of my author talks, you’ll know that I encourage strange, difficult, inappropriate, and challenging questions during the Q&A portion of the evening. I even award a prize for the most challenging of questions: foreign editions of my books, books I have read and will never read again, and once $2…
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Last week I received an email from a fellow Newington resident and fan named Tony that read: I have an oddball question for you that I’ve been thinking about for a long time – do you think you are the most famous current Newington resident? The reason this question occurred to me is that I…
Read MoreI was right! (insert self-congratulatory jig)
I received the following email (links added by me) from a reader this morning, who gave me permission to post it here absent his or her name: _____________________________________ Your post entitled Top 3 Blogger on this Blog really upset me. I thought that it was- and that’s where I got stuck. It was- rude? No. Condescending? No. …
Read MoreMom
An anonymous reader recently asked: You write a lot about your mother-in-law but not about your own mother. What does she think of your success? Sadly, my mother never got to see my book in print, nor did she read a word of the manuscript. I lost my mom two years ago from complications caused…
Read MoreFinding the right literary agent
Brian, via email, asks: Can you tell me how the writer-agent relationship works? How did you go about finding an agent? First, please keep in mind that I can only speak about the relationship that I have with my agent, Taryn Fagerness. Being new to the publishing world, I don’t know if our relationship is…
Read MoreCharacter first
Penelope Pudding (a genius pseudonym) writes: Do your books evolve as you write them, or do you know how they will end in advance? Interesting question. As you probably know, every author is different. Perhaps the story behind my Something Missing will answer this for you. The idea for Something Missing began on a November…
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